Has someone hacked my GMail account?

[JeeberD]

Found this in my in-box today...
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Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

Mail Delivery System
<mailer-daemon @host04.ipowerweb.com> to me
More options Aug 30 (2 days ago)
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

themorrisons @morrisongang.com
This message has been rejected because it has
a potentially executable attachment "your_document.pif"
This form of attachment has been used by
recent viruses or other malware.
If you meant to send this file then please
package it up as a zip file and resend it.

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Return-path: <[email protected]>
Received: from 109m04.oasis.mediatti.net ([210.233.197.109] helo=morrisongang.com)
by host04.ipowerweb.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1)
id 1C1zBh-0001T4-00
for themorrisons @morrisongang.com; Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:20:03 -0700
From: jeeberd @gmail.com
To: themorrisons @morrisongang.com
Subject: Re: Document
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 12:20:04 +0900
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0012_00003DD3.00007C91"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
Message-Id: <[email protected]>

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

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Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Your file is attached.

------=_NextPart_000_0012_00003DD3.00007C91
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
name="your_document.pif"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="your_document.pif"
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There's a bunch more random letters that go on for a long time after this, and I obviously didn't try to send anything to anyone at that address...

So, did someone get into my account and try to use it for a malicious purpose? If so, is there anything that I can do about it? I don't want to become the next Christy Cream, after all... :(

[rkmsuf]

2/3

[cartman]

Probably someone spoofed your email address. This is a pretty common thing among spammers. They make their mail look like it came from someone else's address. Not much you can do about it.

[Joe]

it was me. sorry about that.

[JeeberD]

it was me. sorry about that.

Bastard! You just lost my vote... :mad:


Thanks for the info, cartman...

[Joe]

it was an issue of national security, it had to be done.

[albionmoonlight]

it was an issue of national security, it had to be done.
The United States had the opportunity to obtain FORTY MILLION DOLLARS THAT IS CURRENTLY BEING HELD IN SEVERAL BANKS THROUGHOUT NIGERIA.

We needed to act before THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BECAME AWARE OF THE FUNDS AND PREVENTED THEM FROM LEAVING THE COUNTRY.

So you can see why George has to act.

[MikeVic]

Damn... that's what Canada needs. An on-the-ball leader who will do whatever it takes to increase the money coming into their country. ;)

[Toddiec]

Cartman is right on. We had that happen at my workplace. We would get a couple of returned email from someones anti-virus program that kicks the messages back if it detects undesirable attachments. I know it was a virus that spoofs the "From" address, but I can't remember which one. Do a goole search for that attachment name and I bet you can find some info on it. It took forever to convince the guy who got the return email that he was not infected and sending out thousands of virus-laden emails.